tom, you interviewed then-candidate obama in 2008. you asked them then, would you get medicare and social security reform done in your first two years? he said well, tom, i don't know if i can do that, but certainly in the first term. i asked him to make a commitment for the first year of his second term. he's not prepared to do that. this is the driver. david, you recently link to a "weekly standard" piece, you're going to run out of discretionary money to do the things the president wants to do if he doesn't take on entitlements. >> they've got to address it. and the president, i think, could help himself a lot if he were tougher on the aarp, for example, and said, look, it's not about the people at the bottom for whom medicare really is the life line. it's about all the people, including those of us around the table who get the same benefits, members of our family who are very working class. my brother has a really great working-class career working for the telephone company, but there's a big disparity between what we're worth, bu